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Sci-tech: Multimedia presentations

This guide includes information about resources in the Tech Lounge at the Lathrop Library for people who want to create multimedia resources, print posters, or get consulting help. This guide also includes books and websites about writing for the screen or cover science and technology topics (e.g. technical production, how science is portrayed in movies).

Explore cutting-edge research from ACS National Meetings free of charge with hundreds of recorded presentations from the 2011 ACS National Meetings. More free presentations from other ACS Meetings is also available at http://www.acs.org/meetingcontent

Annual Reviews is pleased to offer audio and video conversations with the contributors at the heart of our organization: our superb editors and authors. These top-of-their-game scientists step back from their current research and consider its relationship to careers in scholarship, to the broader face of science, and to society.

Distinctive Voices highlights innovations, discoveries, and emerging issues in an exciting and engaging public forum. Do you wonder how things work? What the future holds? If you are curious about the science and technology behind today's hot topics, Distinctive Voices is for you! Learn from some of the best minds in the world—including members of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine—in presentations geared to the general public.

iTunes U — a powerful distribution system for everything from lectures to language lessons, films to labs, audiobooks to tours — is an innovative way to get educational content into the hands of students. Includes more than 350,000 free lectures, videos, films, and other resources — from all over the world.

The Journal of Visualized Experiments, JoVE, is dedicated to accelerating biological, medical, chemical and physical research by elucidating techniques through a combination of peer reviewed video and text.

Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia bring together outstanding young scientists to discuss exciting advances and opportunities in a broad range of disciplines. By doing so, Frontiers helps to remove communication barriers between fields and encourages collaborations.

MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed and selected higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.

This is the YouTube video channel of www.MoleClues.org, the Web site where scientists and young people come together! MoleClues and MoleClues TV are created by Molecular Frontiers Foundation, engaging youth in molecular science!

Museum of the Moving Image advances the public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media. It does so by collecting, preserving, and providing access to moving-image related artifacts, screening significant films and other moving-image works, presenting exhibitions of artifacts, artworks, and interactive experiences, and offering educational and interpretive programs to students, teachers, and the general public.

The nanoHUB is a rich, web-based resource for research, education and collaboration in nanotechnology. The nanoHUB hosts resources to help you learn about nanotechnology, including Online Presentations, Courses, Learning Modules, Podcasts, Animations, and Teaching Materials. The nanoHUB offers web-based tools that help you learn about and that simulate nanotechnology devices. The nanoHUB also provides a collaboration environment via Workspaces, Online Meetings and User groups.

The mission of the Scientific Visualization Studio is to facilitate scientific inquiry and outreach within NASA programs through visualization. All the visualizations created by the SVS (currently totalling over 4,000) are accessible to you through this Web site. More recent animations are provided as MPEG-4s, MPEG-2s, and MPEG-1s. Some animations are available in high definition as well as NTSC format.

InterViews provides first-person accounts of the lives and work of National Academy of Sciences members. In this series of one-on-one conversations, scientists talk about what inspired them to pursue the careers they chose and describe some of the most fascinating aspects of their research.

Audio: Every show features highlighted content from the week's edition of Nature including interviews with the people behind the science, and in-depth commentary and analysis from journalists covering science around the world. Videos: For selected articles and letters Nature presents streaming videos featuring interviews with scientists behind the research and analysis from Nature editors. Each week Nature publishes a free audio show.

Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century, but this modern version has a short video about each one. Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century, but this modern version has a short video about each one. All these videos are created by video journalist Brady Haran, featuring real working chemists from the University of Notttingham.

Listen to brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, Academy members, and policy makers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in PNAS, plus a broad range of scientific news about discoveries that affect the world around us.

Watch and listen to Royal Society events online, at home, in the office, or on the move. Our public events and prize lectures feature cutting-edge science, revealing history of science, and the exploration of science and culture.

The Science Multimedia section pulls together a variety of features built around images, online video, and audio that can be found on the Science sites. Most of the material accessed from this gateway is free to all users of the site.

ScienceCinema uses innovative, state-of-the-art audio indexing and speech recognition technology from Microsoft Research, allowing you to search for specific words and phrases spoken within video files. You can then easily access the exact point in the video where the words were spoken by the presenter. Videos in ScienceCinema highlight leading-edge research from the U.S. Department of Energy as well as the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

The mission of this site is to provide rich media solutions to the scientific, technical and medical market. Our innovations in scientific and scholarly communications enhance knowledge discovery and collaboration. The text-only world of scholarly publishing no longer suffices in the age of Internet video and social media. In science, as in life, a picture is indeed worth a thousand words. SciVee makes science visible.

SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations. With 60 million monthly visitors and 130 million pageviews, it is amongst the most visited 200 websites in the world. Besides presentations, SlideShare also supports documents, PDFs, videos and webinars.

This website explores the intersection of science and film, and enhancing the public understanding of science and technology. It features award-winning science-themed short films that were supported by grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, videos of discussions with filmmakers and scientists, news about the Sloan Film Program’s awards and activities, and original articles exploring the cinematic depictions of scientific ideas and the portrayal of s and engineers in film and television.

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. TED Talks began as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED with the world by releasing talks online. The reaction was so enthusiastic that the entire TED website has been reengineered around TED Talks, with the goal of giving everyone on-demand access to the world's most inspiring voices.

Images and other media in the National Science Foundation Multimedia Gallery are available for use in print and electronic material by NSF employees, members of the media, university staff, teachers and the general public. All media in the gallery are intended for personal, educational and nonprofit/non-commercial use only.

An Independent Broadcaster of Informed Scientific Visual and Audio Media, Vega is a not for profit trust which broadcasts science programs for free over the internet. Their programs feature experts in science and engineering and many have been broadcast on mainstream television. This site contains a growing archive of some of the world’s most famous scientists who discuss their lives and discoveries as well as their concerns.

The World Science Festival is a production of the Science Festival Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in New York City. The Foundation’s mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Their interactive video library is updated daily.